Trouble With Upgrading

[telecom369]

Hey,

So I recently tried to upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10. Everything went fine, until my computer restarted and I got an error saying "one or more of the mounts listed in /etc/fstab cannot yet be mounted"

I would use: mount -o remount,rw /

But I want to preserve my files, and I'm not sure that it will.

Any help?

[cooper.z]

you are luckier than me. you can see something after you upgrade to 9.10.
I only got a black screen with a small ubuntu logo in the middle of the screen. and I cannot get any help after I read through the forum. :-(

[antiram]

but /etc/fstab is on / and must be mounted for reading this file. Try "cat /proc/mounts" or "mount" to see what is not mounted

cooper.z, boot with the recovery boot entry, then you can see the error message. if the boot manager is not shown at boot then try pressing ESC (or cursor up/down keys) after bios

[telecom369]

So what would I do if it's not mounted?

[antiram]

then you are in the buildin kernel shell.
try mount your "/", eg. "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt".
if you found your "/" then unmount, reboot to grub, press "e" to change the root=UUID=123xyz in the kernel commandline to root=/dev/sda1. Press return and "b" to boot

but your error message says that "/" is mounted. you could comment out the line in fstab, which is not mounted.

[telecom369]

Except I am stuck in a Recovery Shell, which is Read-only. I can't edit fstab